What Are the Most and Least Valuable College Majors? (Infographic) Bankrate.com ranked college majors from the most lucrative to the most likely to have you living on someone else's couch.

By Dan Bova

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A study conducted by Bankrate.com took a look at college majors and ranked them on their post-graduate value. The study analyzed 162 majors based on several factors including average annual income, unemployment rates, and how much schooling was required beyond a bachelor's degree.

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The top of this list has some predictable and some not-so-predictable entries. If you're good at assessing risk or can tell why a panda has the sniffles, you're in pretty good shape. Art lovers? Maybe not so much. Check out Bankrate.com's infographic below.

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Dan Bova

Entrepreneur Staff

VP of Special Projects

Dan Bova is the VP of Special Projects at Entrepreneur.com. He previously worked at Jimmy Kimmel Live, Maxim, and Spy magazine. His latest books for kids include This Day in History, Car and Driver's Trivia ZoneRoad & Track Crew's Big & Fast Cars, The Big Little Book of Awesome Stuff, and Wendell the Werewolf

Read his humor column This Should Be Fun if you want to feel better about yourself.

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